It's not the end of the world!

Hi, everybody, all the movie bugs in the world, how’re you doing? I’m from PJ, Malaysia , a guy who loves watching movies a lot, and enjoys collecting DVDs. As a matter of fact, I’ve picked up a lot of conversational English by watching quite some English-language movies throughout the years.


Once I read it in a news paper, there was this guy who was trying to popularize the way of learning English by watching movies on DVD. So he set up some sort of a center, somewhere in KL, and he kick-started the “movement”. But I haven’t heard from him for so long now. Guess he couldn’t make it.

It’s all right. Let’s do this here. Let’s watch some DVD movies together and share some views. It can be Chinese or English movies. Japanese, Korean? Okay, too. But I know neither of the two languages. So, for the time being, let’s focus on Chinese and English movies.

For a freaking long time, I haven’t touched any DVD. Work thing, you know? Now I’m gonna be watching some movies, and writing a little something about what I think of the moves I’ve seen. And some history stuff. No matter where you are from, local or overseas, you’re welcome to share what you have to say and…Shed some light. Yeehaw!

This is a big blockbuster, a really terrifying disaster movie that might have once made you stop breathing and scared the hell out of you. Some of them so-called prophets say the end of the world is nearing. How near? Very! Just less than 2 years from now.

2012! This is the year. Freeze…and hold your breath for a couple of seconds! Are you freaking kidding me? I mean, many of us haven’t really enjoyed the world yet. And it’s coming to an end soon? What would you do if the end of the world came in less than two years?

Some, maybe lots of us would be lost at sea. What? Cat’s got your tongue? Now you don’t even know how to express yourself, huh?

With global warming getting worse, the sea levels near many coastal cities around the world are rising one bit in a year. These cities, like New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and stuff, are facing a catastrophic chain of natural disasters. In 2012, all these horrific Mayan calendar predictions are happening.

Grounds are beginning to crack. Wow! I mean, how could them Hollywood special effects guys make the scenes look so real? The supermarket is torn in two. No worries, nobody gets hurt just yet.

What next? California is going down. Hey, this time, it’s not New York, eh? And houses are coming apart. Streets are being split up by the earth crust displacement. Jackson, played by this handsome dude John Cusack, who also recently starred in Shanghai with Gong li and Chow Yun Fatt, is a struggling novelist, now running for his life with his ex-wife and their son and daughter, Noah and Lily, in a private plane flown by an amateur pilot .

Where to? The promised land? Hell, no. It’s the middle kingdom, China.

Cos amidst all these end-of-the-world catastrophes, the life-saving arks are in Tibet, China. Johnson has to get his family to China. Since when China has become the “savior”, huh? One thing for sure, year 2012.

As I know, when movie fans in China saw the scene that people’s liberation army showed up and saved the day. They felt extremely good about it. Some said Hollywood was trying to kiss China’s ass. Thing is, for the sake of money, they could be major ass kissers. Ha ha.

Oops, sorry my bad. Tell you what, the huge plane that takes those surviving people to China was made in Russia. Is this an act of ass kissing, too? Maybe not, huh.

And once again, look at those arks, matter of fact, they’re spaceships. So magnificently designed and grandly built, the three of them can accommodate thousand of people. And, you know what? The president of the United States Thomas Wilson, played by Danny Glover , a black American president, future megatrend, eh? But now, America already got Barrack Obama. Yes, president Wilson has decided to stay back in Washington DC, facing his fate when the natural disasters are looming large. He perished in the end. Touching and empowering enough? Yes, it is.

Disaster movies are always selling, like hot cakes. The previous one, we got The Day After Tomorrow, directed by the same guy Roland Emmerich, both of these two raked in super big bucks.

And with some tears… check out the little girl Lily, Jackson’s daughter, her real name is Lily too; when tears come rolling out of her beady eyes, how could you resist that? How could you not cry with her? I would. And I did.

Relax, guys. Year 2012 is definitely not the end of the world. It’s the beginning of another ancient Mayan way of counting the running of their calendar circle. It’s gonna be a brand new start.

I mean, why worry? With China rising and around, it could be the savior of the world. Ha ha. Plus, the second coming of Christ has not yet come.

So, relax, and live it up.